(목동김상철토플전문학원) 고3 김혜빈 독립형 WT #5 Universities should do something important for students who want to get a job.

#5 Universities should do something important for students who want to get a job. Over the past few decades, many types of University programs have been initiated for students’ well-being after graduation. So, it has been argued whether Universities should do something important for students who want to get a job. Some might argue that Universities have no reason to do such a thing for students because Universities are meant for education before graduation. Others might disagree with this statement. However, I am fully convinced that Universities must help graduating students become hired for the sake of both the Universities themselves and the condition of the society. I have a couple of reasons to support my idea. I will explain and develop them in the next following paragraphs below.  To begin with, helping students get suitable jobs is beneficial to the universities’ images and reputations because it proves that such universities are highly capable of producing favorable workers. University is a place where students go in order to become intelligent enough to become favored in their job fields. However, if universities do not support students to get hired, such universities will be known to have low-quality educational systems. Although some people might say that there is no reason to expect universities to be responsible for students’ lives outside of campus, universities that do not support students to get a job will never be called ‘elite schools’. For instance, there was a survey among a group of high-school graduates who are preparing for college and university. The questions were mainly about what school they want to attend most and why. We may expect everyone to choose the “Ivy League” schools as their dream schools, however, some of them chose above-average schools as their goals. Nevertheless, they all wanted to go to their dream universities for the same reason: better career opportunities due to the support of the universities. No matter what university the majority of students choose, students are attending universities to become hired eventually. Some students did agree that there is no reason for universities to help students get hired after graduation, but universities will never have prominent freshman if they do not support them to be employed or hired as educated workers in the business field. Therefore, it is reasonable for universities to help students become hired. Second, universities must help students get suitable jobs in order to stop the increase of the employed graduates all over the world. In today’s society, even the graduates from elite schools are having unemployment problems. At first, the government thought this would be fixed if there were more jobs. However, the number of jobs isn’t the cause of such social problem because there are many decent jobs that need more employees. The problem revealed to be universities’ education and support. There aren’t enough universities helping graduates become hired. Although some people might say that the reason such students are not being employed is because of the lack of skill of the students themselves, it is the universities’ job to help even the most untalented students to find their place in the business field. For example, my sister had a hard time in her first two years of university because she had selected the wrong major for her life. She was majoring computer-technology when what she really wanted to learn was psychology. She had low grades and didn’t put much effort in her studies. However, her university had a lot of counseling programs for students who are trying to find their path to success after graduation. My sister met a wonderful counselor, changed her major and was able to find further programs supporting her getting hired after graduation years later. She was able to find a decent job for herself as a psychiatrist who helps many mentally ill patients. If it had not been the help of the school, she wouldn't have been employed. Not only her, but many others are struggling to get full support of the university in order to get career opportunities. Teachers are not only people who open doors but also people who push the student through them. Likewise, if universities are not responsible for the future of society’s workers, I don’t know who are.